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Will they or won't they patch a controversial bug on Tuesday that made news last month as a big-time hacker favorite? Some security experts are saying yes -- that amongst the eight security updates Microsoft will deliver next week (six of them marked "critical,") will be a patch for a Windows Server 2008 vulnerability reported in April. Two of the eight updates will patch Windows, another two are aimed at Office, while the remaining four target Internet Explorer, SharePoint, Windows Media Player, and Visual Basic and Visual Studio,

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